* Vanilla Ice, “Hard to Swallow,†Republic/Universal.
As if his earlier music wasn’t. . . . Ice returns with a mix of hard-core hip-hop sentiments and heavy-metal-like musical backing. The rapper, whose 1990 single “Ice Ice Baby†made him one of the biggest-selling and most-ridiculed performers the genre has ever produced, scream-raps pitifully over angry tracks from Korn producer Ross Robinson about his numerous struggles. In stores Tuesday.
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